RESCUE

Being a fast growing town in Chennai, It is crowded with different categories of people. Labors from various under developed states of India have been
migrated into this life saving city. Millions of engineers from all over the country were grooming in this same city.

In the recent days, there are many criminal activities happened around that place. People doesn’t know whom to believe and whom not to.

Few days before, even few IT engineers kidnapped a multimillionaires kid and demand for more money. Tamil Nadu police found the gang and rescued the kid
safely. The reason behind this activity is, the new born criminals were planning to become rich in short period.

Few months ago, few workers from north-east states did bank robbery. Chennai police executed every one of them during the mission.

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It was a Friday late evening around 8 pm…

I am coming back from work happily as the next two days will be holiday. I almost reached my place, just few hundred meters away from my house.  It was about to rain, as usual there was no electricity around the area. The entire street is in darkness.

I heard a scream-cry of a little baby.

Through my bike’s head light, i saw a tall man in his folded dhoti was walking fast and there was no one else on the road. Again i heard the baby’s cry.

It was not a usual cry of an infant. Something wired, it was a scream. I feel the baby should be in some kind of trouble.

Oh…No.. I saw the tall man was carrying a little kid in his arms and walking fast.

I smelled some criminal behavior and I should check whether this kid is being kidnapped. We cant help if there is injustice happening beyond our limit or across the border. But it is happening in front of my eyes. I should jump in and rescue the kid.

The cry of the kid’s mom, sorrow the kid’s dad flashed in-front of my eyes. Why these in-human’s doing brutal things for money? I will not allow this to happen, at least the one in-front of me.

I went closer to the man and put the hi-beam on my bike.He turned back and stared at me and increased his walking pace.

Such a rough face he had with that thick mustache. I could not capture his face cut as he was as dark as night. Throwing him down during a one on one fight was impossible for me, as he was well build, tall, rough and dark too.

But i didn’t have an option, i need to save this kid.
The baby was crying so hard and need a saving hand. Pathetic situation. It increased my pulse and adrenaline.

I rushed near him and passed over him and went ahead of him and stopped my bike. Actually i was looking for some backup from some of the neighbors. I know that man realized that i was after him and waiting for him.

Suddenly…He entered into an adjacent small grocery shop. As there is no power, the entire shop is lighted by a single candle.I got some courage, with the help of shopkeeper, i could rescue the kid. I turned my bike and went near the shop.

The kidnapper acted like a regular customer and purchasing some groceries. Before entering the shop i noticed, that the shopkeeper is a old lady who cannot back me up during the execution. I am disappointed, yet didn’t stop my action.

I parked my bike and got ready for the rescue mission.

At the same time, the man also came out of the shop. As i was standing there at a side of the shop, he moved back the same direction he came in.

‘Hey, 1 second’ I said. He looked back in lightening fast.

What an rough face. His eyes were reddish, filled with brutality. The kid in his hand was trying to move out of his hand. He was holding the baby tightly.

‘Yes’ he replied and looked me from top to bottom. He pretended very cool and he wanted to escape.

‘Who are you? why the baby is crying hard?’ I asked. Before he replied i continued ‘I have never seen you in this place before’.

He replied ‘WHAA..AT?  Who are you man?’

He started acting smart and started reacting that i was about to mug him. He tried to gather attention from the shop keeper to put me in trouble.

I replied boldly, ‘I am a citizen of this same city, I cant allow injustice happening in-front of me and I doubt you’.

He gasped for a moment and he said that he lives in nearby apartment and he came for shopping with his kid. But all these time, the kid was restless and crying. I asked for his ID card, but he don’t have with him.

I insisted him to prove his identity and relationship with this kid. He replied, “If you could follow me, i can show my ID card and prove the details you are looking for”.

He just walked a head of me and took a left to the next street. This street was more dark and dangerous than the earlier one, as there was only one building.

My instinct were saying that I was into a serious trouble. No one was around even to rescue me out. He just climbed up the stair case and asked me to followed him. We reached the 1st floor and he silently knocked door three times. It seems like a code word for me.

I was expecting a gang of people there with weapon. I decided to run back to call for police. I could not fight with more than 1 person.

Suddenly the door opened, a lady opened the door and asked him with a voice of arrogance and frustration.

‘How long will it take to buy you some ginger-garlic….?’